Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Amit Agnihotri June 29: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev has joined hands with the Sadhu community to launch nationwide agitation if the Centre doesn't intervene in saving the river Ganga. "We are giving three months to the Centre and the five states, through which the Ganga passes, to take concrete action …
Visiting the historic Sinhagad, one of the most favoured hangout of Puneites, will now come with a price, if you carry plastic items along. As an effort to curb the environmental pollution caused by plastic, visitors will be made to pay a penalty in the range of Rs 50 to …
The city's cellphone services could get a jolt if the Delhi Pollution Control Committee's latest move to curb noise and air pollution is taken to its logical end. Waking up to the hazards of cellphone towers in residential areas, the committee has sent out notices to the seven cellphone service …
With the support of community participation, Environ, a city-based environmental NGO, is planning to make the recycling of plastic more productive in terms of employment generation and pollution control. Plastic waste, often occupying a considerable space in any household, and also a prime cause of flash flood in the city, …
on april 11, the Jodhpur bench of the High Court of Rajasthan ordered closure of 126 industries operating in non-conforming areas in Pali, infamous for pollution from its dyeing and printing industries. The court issued two orders in response to petitions filed by industry groups
Sindh Information Minister Shazia Marri has said that the government will soon announce a policy for pollution control and energy conservation. She was speaking at a recently held Earth Day Carnival, jointly organised by Promoloon and UHU at Sindbad Kids park in connection with World Environment Day. Social Welfare Minister …
>> The Zambian Parliament has amended the Mines and Minerals Act allowing the government to levy higher taxes on mining companies by abolishing all existing agreements. Mining companies operating in Zambia had opposed the amendments and threatened to suspend operations. >> Officials in southern China have sealed more than 4,000 …
The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday directed the state government and the AP Pollution Control Board to file a report on the implementation of Supreme Court directions with regard to pollution control measures in Patancheru industrial area. While dealing with a batch of writ petitions, a division bench comprising …
Mining giant Rio Tinto has published a report of its efforts to reduce the company's environmental impact in 2007. The report focuses on emissions to air and water, waste management, land stewardship and climate change. The report and a summary of Rio Tinto's CSR strategy can be found on the …
The EU is considering funding projects in North Africa and along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean in an effort to tackle rising pollution levels. The European Commission and European Investment Bank have been looking at the pollution hotspots which impact on the sea as a whole and are now …
Czechs Invites Tenders For $7 Bln Environment Clean-Up CZECH REPUBLIC: April 11, 2008 PRAGUE - The Czech government will invite firms to tender for a contract to repair environmental damage worth 114 billion crowns (US$7.18 billion), the finance ministry said on Thursday. The government has pledged to fix damage, such …
Czechs Invites Tenders For $7 Bln Environment Clean-Up CZECH REPUBLIC: April 11, 2008 PRAGUE - The Czech government will invite firms to tender for a contract to repair environmental damage worth 114 billion crowns (US$7.18 billion), the finance ministry said on Thursday. The government has pledged to fix damage, such …
A Euro 500m gas storage plant has been approved by the Irish Planning Board. An Bord Pleanala approved construction of the facility in the Shannon Estuary, between Ballylongford and Tarbert in County Kerry. It is believed that the plant will be capable of supplying around 60% of the country's gas …
In the first week 700, last week 885 and this week 911. The Pune Municipal Corporation is claiming that the number of civic officials and other working staff following the "no vehicle day' activity is growing every week. In a statement by the PMC, Municipal Commisisoner Praveensinh Pardeshi welcomed the …
Facing ever-increasing costs, the us Department of Energy has given up a plan to build the world's largest clean-coal power plant and carbon sequestration facility. At the time of the announcement, the estimated cost of the plant, called FutureGen, was us $1.8 billion. The department said that the costs had …
On January 24, the Gujarat Pollution Control Board, gpcb, asked 15 polluting industrial units in Ankleshwar to close down. The regulatory body said the units violated environmental and pollution control guidelines. There are some major companies in the list including United Phosphorous, Cadila Pharmaceuticals, Lupin and Wockhardt. gpcb officials said …
